Hanukkah, Christmas, Fruit of the Spirit, Joy

I meant to post this last night for you, but here is the third installment of our Lesson for the Hanukkah season with our focus on the Fruit of the Spirit and the Light of Christ Jesus.

Section III

Joy

The Bible

Psalms 51: 8-12

⁸Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.

⁹Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities.

¹⁰Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.

¹¹Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me.

¹²Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit.

Matthew 2: 10,11

¹⁰ When they saw the star, they rejoiced with exceeding great joy.

¹¹ And when they were come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother, and fell down, and worshipped him: and when they had opened their treasures, they presented unto him gifts; gold, and frankincense, and myrrh.

Isaiah 52 : 9.10

⁹ Break forth into joy, sing together, ye waste places of Jerusalem: for the Lord hath comforted his people, he hath redeemed Jerusalem.

¹⁰The Lord hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.

Phil 2:2

² Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind.

Phil 4:1-4

¹ Therefore, my brethren dearly beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand fast in the Lord, my dearly beloved.

²I beseech Euodias, and beseech Syntyche, that they be of the same mind in the Lord.

³And I entreat thee also, true yokefellow, help those women which laboured with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and with other my fellowlabourers, whose names are in the book of life.

⁴Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice.

Section III

Science & Health

304:9

This is the doctrine of Christian
Science: that divine Love cannot be deprived of its
manifestation, or object; that joy cannot be turned into
12 sorrow, for sorrow is not the master of joy; that good can
never produce evil; that matter can never produce mind
nor life result in death.

The perfect man — governed
15 by God, his perfect Principle — is sinless and eternal.

76:22

The sinless joy, — the perfect harmony and immortality
of Life, possessing unlimited divine beauty and goodness
24 without a single bodily pleasure or pain, —
constitutes the only veritable, indestructible
man, whose being is spiritual.

This state of existence
27 is scientific and intact, — a perfection discernible only
by those who have the final understanding of Christ in
divine Science.

Death can never hasten this state of
30 existence, for death must be overcome, not submitted to,
before immortality appears.

359 :22

In childhood, she often listened
with joy to these words, falling from the lips of her
24 saintly mother, "God is able to raise you up from sick‐
ness;" and she pondered the meaning of that Scripture
she so often quotes: "And these signs shall follow them
27 that believe; . . . they shall lay hands on the sick,
and they shall recover."

Hanukkak, Christmas, Fruit of the Spirit Peace

Today's focus is Peace.

Again I am using the King Jame's Version of the Bible unless noted along with citations from the Christian Science textbook Science and Health with Keys to the Scripture by Mary Baker Eddy.

Feel free to share your thoughts on Peace and the Prince of Peace as we love to hear from readers.

Section II

Peace

The Bible

Isaiah 54:13

¹³ And all thy children shall be taught of the Lord; and great shall be the peace of thy children.

II Thessilonians 3:6

⁶ Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us.

I Corinthians 1:3

³ Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

1 Corinthians 14:33

³³ For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.

Isaiah 9:6,7

⁶ For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. ⁷ Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this.

Isaiah 52:7

⁷ How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!

Section II

Science & Health

45:16

Glory be to God, and peace to the struggling hearts!

Christ hath rolled away the stone from the door of hu‐
18 man hope and faith, and through the reve‐
lation and demonstration of life in God, hath
elevated them to possible at-one-ment with the spiritual
21idea of man and his divine Principle, Love.

506: 8-14

Genesis i. 8. And God called the firmament Heaven.

9   And the evening and the morning were the second day.

Through divine Science, Spirit, God, unites under‐
standing to eternal harmony.

The calm and exalted
12 thought or spiritual apprehension is at peace.

Thus the dawn of ideas goes on, forming each
successive stage of progress.

52:13

Despised and rejected of men," was Isaiah's
graphic word concerning the coming Prince of Peace.

15

Herod and Pilate laid aside old feuds in order to unite
in putting to shame and death the best man that ever
trod the globe.

To-day, as of old, error and evil again
18make common cause against the exponents of truth.

The "man of sorrows" best understood the nothing‐
ness of material life and intelligence and the mighty ac‐

21  tuality of all-inclusive God, good.

These were the two cardinal points of Mind-healing, or
Christian Science, which armed him with Love. The high‐
24  est earthly representative of God, speaking of human
ability to reflect divine power, prophetically said to his
disciples, speaking not for their day only but for all time:
27"He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do
also;" and "These signs shall follow them that believe."

59:11

Fulfilling the
12different demands of their united spheres, their sympa‐
thies should blend in sweet confidence and cheer, each
partner sustaining the other, — thus hallowing the union
15of interests and affections, in which the heart finds peace
and home.

another note to readers: all citations from Science and Health are copied with formatting as they are seen in our weekly lesson and in the book.

I hope you have a blessed week as we continue our journey. 

Hanukkah , Christmas, Fruit of the Spirit, and Love

Last year I wrote a lesson for our nightly reading combining the Bible and Science & Health with Key to the Scripture by Mary Baker Eddy.
This year I decided to expand on the lesson a bit at added another book Miscellany also by Mary Baker Eddy for Cameron to read with us each night.

We are focusing on the Light of the World and the Fruits of the Spirit over the nights of Hanukkah pointing toward Christ. I share this with a grateful heart knowing that I am know in a place where I can share these ideas with more people through my own understanding.

I hope you have a blessed season as we look toward the ultimate light of the world, Christ Jesus and his teachings.

The below is tonight's readings with citations for the above mentioned text. All Scripture is used from the King James Version unless otherwise noted.

Hanukkah 2012

Golden Text: Galatians 5:22,23 (NIV)

²² But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, ²³ gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.

Responisive Reading Ephesians 5: 8-10 (…but), Deuteronomy 13:13, 19:9

but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:

⁹(For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;)

¹⁰Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord.

¹⁰ And he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee: he will also bless the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep, in the land which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee.

⁹ If thou shalt keep all these commandments to do them, which I command thee this day, to love the Lord thy God, and to walk ever in his ways; then shalt thou add three cities more for thee, beside these three:

Section I

Love

The Bible

1 John 4:7, 16

⁷ Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God, and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.

¹⁶ And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.

Romans 13: 10

¹⁰  Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.

Psalms 119 :159,160

¹⁵⁹Consider how I love thy precepts: quicken me, O Lord, according to thy lovingkindness.

¹⁶⁰Thy word is true from the beginning: and every one of thy righteous judgments endureth for ever.

Hosea 14:4

⁴ I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him.

Mark 12: 30,31

³⁰ And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.

³¹And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.

Section 1

Science & Health

454 :18-21

Love inspires,
illumines, designates, and leads the way.

Right motives
give pinions to thought, and strength and freedom to
²¹speech and action.

444: 4

"All
things work together for good to them that love God," is
6the dictum of Scripture.

326: 8

All nature teaches God's
⁹love to man, but man cannot love God supremely and set
his whole affections on spiritual things, while loving the
material or trusting in it more than in the spiritual.

583: 20-25

Creator. Spirit; Mind; intelligence; the animating
²¹divine Principle of all that is real and good; self-existent
Life, Truth, and Love; that which is perfect and eternal;
the opposite of matter and evil, which have no Prin‐
²⁴ciple; God, who made all that was made and could not
create an atom or an element the opposite of Himself.

Section 1

Missecallaeny Writings

123:3

To me, however, love is the greater marvel,
so I must continue to prize love even more than the gifts
which would express it.

The great guerdon of divine
⁶Love, which moves the hearts of men to goodness and
greatness, will reward these givers, and this encourages
me to continue to urge the perfect model for your accept‐
⁹ance as the ultimate of Christian Science.

257:2-6 ( . )

God give to them more of
³ His dear love that heals the wounded heart.

To-day the watchful shepherd shouts his welcome over
the new cradle of an old truth.

This truth has traversed
⁶night, through gloom to glory, from cradle to crown.

The Heart of Christmas a movie and a beautiful idea.

Are you ready for Christmas? What if Christmas is more than just 1 day, what if we could celebrate if any day. The Heart of Christmas is just that, a celebration of the joys of Christmas even in October.  Based on a true story this movie will move you and make you think hard about Christmas and what it really means to celebrate.
What if you were told your child wouldn't live to see another Christmas?   This movie beautifully illustrates one family's answer to that one question.

Matthew West's title track video

The movie trailer only touches on how beautiful this story is. 

The St. Jude's Children's Hospital has always been one of those organizations I love to support. I remember fondly the school activities that we did to support St. Jude's. You can join and support St. Jude's this Christmas as they work to fully fund the hospital for 1 day, an almost daunting task as it takes $1.7 million to operate the hospital for one day. 

Watch here this week as I post a giveaway for your own copy of this heartfelt beautifully touching film.

Advent Calendar Planning and workboxes.

(if you are a subscriber I'm sorry for the multiple postings today, but I'm playing catch up)

I'm planning activites for the boys for the Holiday Season including Advent Calendar activities. I'm thinking that I will have several different ones going and incorporate them into our workboxes. We've been pretty relaxed in school the past couple weeks  (the boys and I just weren't getting into the way we should  have, so I basically worked with an unschooling mentality for a couple weeks...)

I received a link to another blog with a great list of activities for Advent.. The Activity Mom has great printable and downloadable activities for the Advent season.

I am printing the cards 1/2 size and on my shipping labels, the boys will be able to attached the card to a piece of card stock (another workbox activity) and help with the prep work for the "calendar". I think we will make a paper Christmas tree and "hang" the ornament cards on it...

We will also using a Playmobil Advent calendar, I'm thinking I will also get them a Santa Playmobil character, although I had thought of getting the Nativity, but still undecided...



 

I do know we will be working through the current Hands of a Child  $5 special, Symbols of Christmas, we will do a couple vocabulary each day and 1 or 2 additional activities. If you are interested in doing this unit, grab your copy before Wednesday the 17th when it will go back to the regular price.